Quentin Crisp Quotes
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I simply adore getting dressed up for a special occasion. I feel incredible stepping out in luxurious fabrics and a bit of bling. That's also how I feel about special-occasion dining rooms. Because these aren't everyday spaces, they contain all sorts of drama for that once-in-a-while 'wow' event.
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A mortgage transaction is very complex, very complicated, and very localized - the rules are not just by state but by county, sometimes even by municipality.
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If you will be the best that you can be right where you are, God will promote you and give you more.
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I admit that when challenging times first surface, it's not first instinct to do a happy dance. But when you take time to pause and add insight to injury, you will immediately start to feel empowered to make those majorly needed life shifts.
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I want to make a name for myself.
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Wealth is the ultimate panacea to poverty.
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The trip to Iraq confirmed that I made the right decision when I voted against lending Iraq the $18 billion the United States plans to use to help rebuild the country.
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Numerous academic studies have shown that amateur investors make poor traders - buying stocks for the wrong reasons, holding losers for too long, and acting on whims and emotions.
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I predicted in 1950 that in five years, manufacturers the world over would be screaming for protection. It took only four years.
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The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.
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It's important for me to think I'm mixed-race.
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The product of extraordinary wealth allied to a taste for the sumptuous.
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I feel passionately that the opportunities I have had should be available to everyone.
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I started breaking out of my shell in sophomore and junior year.
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My parents are not theatrical people, but my dad took me to the theater.
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I really feel like I honed in on a sound and a style of writing that best fits me.
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I take great pride in having been able to overcome the Asian financial crisis and seeking the opportunities available to bring about an unprecedented growth in the economy.
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I became, suddenly, not just a Muslim in faith. I became a Muslim in politics. Somebody whose politics were pre-defined by one interpretation of Islam.
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They are scared that the BBC or CNN may call them radicals, so they remain soft instead. The problem lies there, with the Muslim leaders, not the Muslim masses.
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I was never apposed or sought out nudity, but it was necessary in the Where the Truth Lies. If they didn't have the nudity, but they still had the scenes - because sex is used as a power tool in this movie - I feel it would have felt self conscious and I think the scene is meant for you to feel uncomfortable.
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
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Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
